The latest example of the Keck Foundation's research funding is a project that would take weakling red light and transform it into beefy blue light. Among other things, this could make solar cells more powerful.

The biggest telescopes ever are now under construction. And while they are too big for any one private donor or foundation to fund, philanthropy is playing a key role in enabling humans to look deeper into space.

The W.M. Keck Foundation’s latest $1 million grant will pursue healing human wounds without scarring, using a species of African mouse with a singular talent for making injuries vanish. Keck gravitates toward transformative research ideas in their infancy, so getting behind this nascent breakthrough is a perfect fit.